A committee that studied funding issues with Arizona's pension system for public employees is recommending that current and former workers be allowed to move into a 401(k)-style plan as an optional alternative to fixed-benefit pensions.

For seven weeks this fall, workers and scientists labored from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., six days a week, digging up and hauling off thousands of cubic yards of uranium-tainted soil in Cove, Ariz., and sealing what remained.

Nearly a year after he was forced to quit the Senate, Bundgaard has filed a lawsuit against the City of Phoenix, claiming city employees colluded to ruin his reputation and his political and economic future, and the police portrayed him as the abuser rather than the victim of the scuffle he had with his then-girlfriend in February 2011.